History[]
Leeshar is a character from the 2000 AD strip Meltdown Man. He was the despotic human ruler of a future Earth full of genetically engineered animals known as 'Yujees' who were treated by the humans as second-class citizens. When Nick Stone arrived in this future from the twentieth century, thanks to a nuclear explosion, he set about attempting to overthrow Leeshar's regime. Leeshar used his best Yujees, including Tiger Commander, King Seth and Billy the Pup, to try and stop Stone's band of revolutionaries.
Leeshar was eventually defeated when Stone programmed a nuclear missile left over from Earth's past to strike him in his capital city of Sutermunda. The explosion blasted Leeshar and Stone back to the twentieth century, where they found themselves at the New Jersey turnpike, sixty miles from New York. Leeshar immediately faded away, like smoke on the breeze. This was because the future he had been born in might now never happen, as Stone realised: "The Earth was struck by an asteroid which changed the future, but what if the asteroid was deflected? What if my story is believed and humanity is prepared for its coming? Then the future would change, and Leeshar would never have existed."
Powers and abilities[]
Abilities
Leadership skills.
Paraphernalia[]
Weapons
Catapult (operated by Yujees); gun.
Links[]
- Appearances of Leeshar
- Character Gallery: Leeshar
- Images that feature Leeshar
- Fan-Art Gallery: Leeshar
- Leeshar quotations